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<p>During the Second World War the Royal Navy's vitally important Anti-submarine Experimental Establishment was secretly moved from Portland in Dorset to the Ayrshire village of Fairlie, to escape German bombing on the south coast. For the next six years it occupied the boatyard of yacht builder William Fife on the Firth of Clyde. During this time, highly confidential world-leading research on the acoustic detection of submarines by asdic – now known as sonar – was carried out by hundreds of sci
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- Author
- John F Riddell
- Publisher
- Polygon An Imprint of Birlinn Limited
- Published
- 2022
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781788855693
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Humanities
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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